{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0057.tlg059.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg059.local001","title":"De differentiis pulsuum","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Galen","authorityName":"GALENUS Med.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0057-galenus/","editors":["Karl Gottlob Kühn"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"University of Leipzig","sourceTitle":"Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia","edition":null,"publisher":"Knobloch","place":"Lipsiae","date":"1824","volume":"8","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation","sponsors":[],"funders":["Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"],"principal":null,"responsibilities":[{"role":"Published original versions of the electronic texts","names":[]},{"role":"Keyboarding","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hxpp8p?urlappend=%3Bseq=503","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Galen. De differentiis pulsuum. ed. Karl Gottlob Kühn. Claudii Galeni Opera Omnia, Lipsiae, Knobloch, 1824. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0057.tlg059.local001","excerpt":"Εὐξαίμην μὲν ἂν καὶ μαθεῖν καὶ διδάξαι δύνασθαι τὰ πράγματα, χωρὶς τῶν ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς ὀνομάτων, ἵνα μὴ πρὸς τῷ μακρὰν εἶναι τὴν τέχνην διὰ τὴν οἰκείαν θεωρίαν, ἐξ ἐπιμέτρου γένοιθ’ ἡμῖν ἡ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ἀσχολία. ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀνάγκη διὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων δηλοῦν ἃ βουλόμεθα, τοῖς μὲν σοφισταῖς ἀφθονία κᾀνθάδε σοφισμάτων, καὶ διατριβῆς ἀχρήστου, τοῖς δὲ ἄλλοις ὅσοι πραγμάτων ἐπιστήμην, οὐκ ὀνομάτων ἐμπειρίαν ἐζηλώκαμεν ἄκουσι μὲν, ἐξ ἀνάγκης δὲ ὅμως, προσγίνεται διὰ τὰς τῶν σοφιστῶν ἐπηρείας ἡ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ἀσχολία. κάλλιστον μὲν γὰρ ἦν ὁπωσοῦν περὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων συνθέμενον ἐπὶ τὴν θεωρίαν σπεύδειν, ὡς ἐπὶ τοῦ προγραφέντος ἡμῖν περὶ σφυγμῶν τοῖς εἰσαγομένοις ἐποιήσαμεν, τῶν δὲ ἐν ὀνόμασι μόνων δεινῶν, ἐπ’ αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν ἔργων τῆς τέχνης ἀμαθεστάτων ἐνοχλούντων ἀεὶ, καὶ μηδὲ ἀναπνεῦσαι χωρὶς ἐπηρείας ἐπιτρεπόντων, ἀναγκαία σχεδὸν ἤδη καὶ ἡ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ἀσχολία. τοὺς μὲν οὖν παλαιοὺς ἁπλῶς ἔστιν εὑρεῖν…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/#tlg0057-tlg059-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/#tlg0057-tlg059-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/#tlg0057-tlg059-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/#tlg0057-tlg059-local001-4"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0057.tlg059.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0057/tlg059/local001.json.gz"}}